Example sentences of "people [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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1 | I get letters from people who ask me if 14-year-olds are ready to have sex with 20-year-olds , or even if ten-year-olds are ready to have sex with 19-year-olds . |
2 | I do n't think so because I 'm not really like that and people who know me know that I 'm not like that . |
3 | Perhaps in future you 'd better save that sort of chat for people who know me . |
4 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
5 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
6 | Appropriately , it is the garbage people who bring me my reading matter . |
7 | I 've no words of wisdom , but there are certain people who drive me to distraction , ’ she said . |
8 | And when I appeal in parishes Sunday by Sunday I am aware that I meet the very people who made me a missionary . |
9 | These are the people who made me Wales 's only woman MP . |
10 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
11 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
12 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
13 | I used to despise the people who wrote me letters from England showing that they found the world drab and depressing . |
14 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
15 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
16 | ‘ But there are so many people who want me to do things and I feel I ca n't let them down . |
17 | I am going to be a queen , and I do not people speak to people who displease me . |
18 | — Sure , I had a good job and a comfortable home , I even had people who invited me to their houses . |
19 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
20 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
21 | I 'm bound to say that I meet a lot of people who praise me for speaking up , but do n't speak up themselves . |
22 | Eighty-seven per cent of people who read me have read every book I 've written . ’ |
23 | She spoke kindly of the white men , whom she called Soyappo ( ‘ Long Knives ’ ) and when William Clark first entered the Nez Perce lands , Watkuweis , now aged and dying , apparently told her tribe : ‘ These are the people who helped me . |
24 | It 's taken me months of physio to learn to walk properly again , and I 'm very grateful to all the people who helped me . |
25 | There are people who encouraged me not to worry , not to be scared , but it 's hard . |
26 | The people who reported me were overzealous in thinking I had done something wrong |
27 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
28 | You know the people who rang me up to say hey sixteen thousand on nine over five years ? |
29 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
30 | Mr. Tarrant , the minister of the Unitarian church which the Thomas family now attended regularly , had encouraged Edward in his outdoor tastes with much kindness and persuaded the editor of a children 's paper to print his early holiday-task descriptions of country walks : But like all other grown-up people he inspired me with discomfort , strangeness , a desire to escape … |